History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . rsythe. LAVANSVILLE PASTORATERev. H. M. Pctrca, PastorThis charge consists of two churches: Mt. Calvary, at Lavans-ville, and Mt. Zion, at Bakersville, four miles apart. Mt. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran ChurchThis congregation was an outgrowth from the Samuels Ger-man Reformed and Lutheran Union Church, one mile distant,because of a disagreement of the members as to the manner and 691 SOMERSET CONFERENCE mode of conduct
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . rsythe. LAVANSVILLE PASTORATERev. H. M. Pctrca, PastorThis charge consists of two churches: Mt. Calvary, at Lavans-ville, and Mt. Zion, at Bakersville, four miles apart. Mt. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran ChurchThis congregation was an outgrowth from the Samuels Ger-man Reformed and Lutheran Union Church, one mile distant,because of a disagreement of the members as to the manner and 691 SOMERSET CONFERENCE mode of conducting special religious services. Rev. Peter Rizer, of Somerset, was pastor. He was favorableto the mourners bench method in use at the time. It seems thatduring a revival here some of the members disapproved of thismethod and under the leadership of Mr. George Flick lockedthe church. Mr. David Woy was the leader of the revival party,and with him most of the members withdrew and built the churchhere, Mr. Woy giving the ground. The remainder of the con-gregation at Samuels was now left without pastoral care untilthe organization of the General Council. The effort of Pastor. CHURCH AND PARSONAGE, LAVANSVILLE, PA. Hentz, of Somerset, to build up a pastorate of congregationswhich would go with him into this new body, caused the , pastor here, to reorganize a Lutheran congregation atSamuels in 1872, the Reformed people having also withdrawnand built in Lavansville. The congregation was organized in 1846, the charter membersbeing members from the Samuels Union Church, and the oldchurch edifice built in 1846 and 1847, Rev. Rizer pastor. The charter members of the Lavansville congregation wereDavid Woy, Daniel Adams, David Miller, Christian Barkley,George Barkley, Samuel Barkley. Jonathan Flick, SamuelKooser. Isaac Flick, Joe Barkley, (ieorge Barkley, Joseph692 MT. CALVARY Young. Daniel Beatty built the church, aided by ChaunceyBerkey. It cost about $2,000. It wa
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